Since then, it’s been recovering at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays.

“Just to see the arrow going completely through the bird, you have to get it at close range and you have to aim right at the bird to do that,” said executive director Mark Lembo said when the swan was found.

(credit: Wildlife Rescue Center of the Hamptons/Handout)

“It’s a miracle. Just how fortunate it was that the arrow missed the vitals,” said Suffolk County SPCA head Roy Gross. “You can just imagine how this thing had suffered for the couple of the days that it was swimming around with the arrow through it.”

The Suffolk County SPCA and officials from the wildlife center released the now healthy swan Tuesday morning at the golf course where it was found in Riverhead.

“I recall going back to the facility and they felt it had nerve damage, it couldn’t even walk and we really didn’t think it was going to make it,” said Gross. “We’re so happy today to be able to go there and see the release of the swan back into the wild where it belongs.”